IF YOU'RE DISHING UP FOR DINNER...CHEW ON THIS. MEAT PRICES ARE ABOUT TO BEEF UP. FROM YOUR REFRIGERATOR...TO THE FOOD BANK... ITS GOING TO AFFECT EVERYONE. ( we got a nice fatty one today ) AND IT COMES AT A FAT PRICE. YOU SHOULD SAVOR THAT STEAK, OR BURGER - BECAUSE THE PRICE IS UP NEAR SIX PERCENT FROM LAST YEAR. AND ECONOMISTS PREDICT ANOTHER 7 TO 8 PERCENT INCREASE THIS YEAR...AND NEXT. ( KEN STOYSICH / STOYSICH HOUSE OF SAUSAGE: Hopefully it won't be as bad as they say it's going to be. (02)) KEN STOYSICH OWNER OF STOYSICH HOUSE OF SAUSAGE - SAYS HIS BEEF BUSINESS IS DOWN... BECAUSE OF DROUGHT. FROM TEXAS...TO CALIFORNIA...AND IN WESTERN NEBRASKA - WEATHER AFFECTS CROPS...AND CATTLE CAN'T "BEEF" UP WITHOUT A LOT OF FOOD. IT TAKES A LONG TIME.( KEN STOYSICH: Beef is two years. That's why they say it'll take a year or two for these prices to come down and stabilize very well.)( ááshot of employee wrapping beef and writing price) NOT EVERYONE HAS THAT MUCH MONEY...FOR THE MAIN COURSE.( KEN STOYSICH: We have to buy a little bit less because people are buying less from us, so it just trickles down to everybody.) ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO DEPEND ON DONATIONS. ( BRIAN BARKS/ FOOD BANK OF HEARTLAND: There is no question with the price of food, whether it's beef, dairy, pork, whatever going up, it's going to challenge for us at the food bank. ) AND THAT SHRINKING SUPPLY WONT MEET THE GROWING DEMAND FOR HELP.( BRIAN BARKS: The more people are not able to afford the food they need the more help they're going to go seek.) AND BLOOMBERG SURVEY REPORTED THAT THE U.S CATTLE HERD IS AT A á63 YEAR LOW. SO - LOOK FOR THOSE COUPONS...OR EAT MORE CHICKEN.

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